LET HIM BE RID OF HIS STRIPS!
As I meditated on the resurrection of Lazarus in the gospel of John 11:1-44, it came to my mind that even RELIGION can be a killing machine. As a system, indeed, Religion is a bit like an iron box that too often strangles God and shrinks him rather than revealing him. Gospel is quite the opposite: it open boxes, it awakens, resurrects, "reveals" (i.e. "removes the veil"); it frees from frames, it opens paths, brings to light what is hidden; it takes you out of the grave. Lazarus was a very good boy and a great friend of Jesus, but he lived sunken since ever in things of religion. He did not have a personal life. He was «dead to the world». For him, the world smelled bad. For the world, however, he was the one who did not smell good ... Upon learning that Lazarus' situation had reached a critical point, Jesus was perturbed by that. He approached the place where his friend had locked himself up like in a tomb, and shouted to him, "Lazarus, g...